Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Film Culture Commentary: Michael Bay

The Times of London has a bit about the famous moviemaker who is renowned for, as the article words it, "a brutal screen aesthetic of synapse-splitting mayhem" that has made him "one of the most commercially successful and yet critically reviled directors of the modern movie era."

For the record, the Cine-Sib and I love Bay movies (for the most part -- "Pearl Harbor" was more or less awful and rightfully lampooned by the "South Park" guys in "Team America: World Police"). Yes, we will go see "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." It will be silly, colorful, explosive summer popcorn fun. There's something simply fun and unfettered about Bay, and I really like that about him. He's the magic of a boy's childhood imagination turned loose on the big screen.

It is OK to enjoy the sight of gigantic space robots blowing things up! If I ever become too nerdy and snooty to appreciate a summer popcorn flick, then stage an intervention, please.

Note the "Michael Bay" tag. And remember this?

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